Diehard fans of the theory that Communism is
dead will not like this book, whose stated goal is to help such people recover
from their blindness. The Perestroika Deception describes with unmerciful
clarity the confusion and errors that have been engendered in the world and in
the Church by the deceitful Communist strategy of perestroika, under whose
reformist guise rebellions and wars have been promoted, and the Church
persecuted, in order that the Communist goal of world domination is finally
achieved. In other words, what it unintentionally depicts are the very events
prophesied by Our Lady of Fatima if the Collegial Consecration of Russia is not
done.

Anatoliy Golitsyn's 1984 book, New Lies for Old, forecast,
with 94% accuracy, all the recent changes in the Communist Bloc, including the
economic and political reforms, the rise of Solidarity, the removal of the
Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Perestroika Deception, with extensive documentation, reinforces his
contention in New Lies for Old that all the changes were meticulously planned
years in advance. It explains how they fit into the devious Leninist strategy
for achieving with Western cooperation a one-world Communist government or New
World Social Order, run by the Russians and Chinese, by 2000 A.D. It also
analyzes current events up to the Chechnya struggle and forecasts and
developments.

Golitsyn was a high-ranking KGB official involved in espionage and
counter-espionage who defected to the United States in 1961. Convinced that
Western interpretations of developments in the Communist Bloc were seriously
flawed, he combined his study of Soviet long-range strategy with his inside
knowledge of KGB and Leninist thinking in New Lies of Old. For over thirty
years he has submitted memoranda to the CIA, in which he has provided very
accurate analyses and forecasts of Bloc developments. The Perestroika Deception
is a collection of dated memoranda covering the years 1984 to 1995.

The Great Deception

This book vindicates those politically incorrect Catholics who have
been insisting that Russia has not converted because the Consecration has not
been properly done. Its urgent message is that the West's failure to recognize
that perestroika is a treacherous ploy threatens the very continuation of Western
civilization as perestroika is intended to bring about the political and
physical demise of Western democracies.

Golitsyn provides
irrefutable proof that perestroika or restructuring is not a 1985 Gorbachev
invention, but the final phase of a plan formulated during 1958-1960.
Perestroika refers to the restructuring, not just of the Soviet system, but of
the entire free world. It is the Soviet strategy for a Second October
Revolution, a temporary, non-violent World Revolution involving controlled
fake democratization and strategic disinformation. Communist leaders envisaged
the convergence of Communist/socialist systems with restructured capitalist
systems into the One-World Communist Government. They realized that convergence
could only be achieved by transforming Stalinism into a more attractive
form of Communist democracy. The KGB was reorganized to play a key role in
implementing the strategy. Thirty years of rehearsal in countries such as
Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania prepared the ground for the final phase
perestroika and the controlled false democratization of the USSR itself. That it
is false is confirmed by Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian president and a
long-time Western friend. As late as 1993, he admitted that elections do not
equal democracy.

Perestroika is a
game of mind-control based on the principles of Italian Communist Antonio
Gramsci (1891-1937), who devised a new, improved model of Marxist-Leninism.
Gorbachev was chosen to launch it. Perestroika is psychological warfare,
involving the use of cooperation-blackmail. A theatrical display of
democratism [is] designed to convince the West that a decisive break with the
past has taken place.

This encourages
Western governments to collaborate with the former Communists. At the same
time, there is a threat of a return to the Cold War or worse if the West does
not cooperate. Golitsyn demonstrates that every crisis, from Tiananmen Square
to the fake August 91 coup attempt to Chechnya, has been deliberately designed
according to the cooperation-blackmail equation. The new forces of democracy
are shown locked in mortal combat with the conservative hard-liners and the
West is told that only its cooperation and large infusions of aid will help the
fledgling democracies to survive. The Communist price for peace is thus the
restructuring of Western thinking and policies.

Soviet control of
the Western mind is achieved through manipulation of the media, deceptive use
of language, and the destabilization of society through corruption. According
to the Gramscian formula, the Christian religion has to be secularized, and
culture and morals corrupted, for the Revolution to succeed peaceably. With
Western society deconstructed, the Western mind will be more receptive to
collaboration with the enemy.

Part of the Long-term Plan

Golitsyn demonstrates that the present strategy is a continuation
by the Russians and Chinese, with Gramsci's improvements, of the New Economic
Policy (NEP) devised by Lenin in the 1920s. Lenin had said "the lie is sacred
and deception will be our principal weapon." The NEP was hailed by the West as
a retreat from Communism, but it was a major deception. Pope Pius XI, in his
1937 encyclical "On Atheistic Communism", warned that Communism was not
converting, but he was ignored.

The NEP won for
the Soviets aid from the West and helped to strengthen Russian Communism.
Stalin continued the subterfuge to the point of showing some religious
tolerance and dissolving the Communist International; however, his later
repressions discredited Communism and impeded its global expansion. His
condemnation by modern Communist leaders does not represent their break with
Communism, but their anger that he hurt their cause.

Khrushchev and Mao
decided to abolish Stalinism and restore Leninism. A scientific study of the
NEP was undertaken in 1957. In 1960, the Institute for the Study of the USA and
Canada was set up in Moscow to help Soviets research these target societies. At
the end of 1960, the long-range strategy based on the NEP was adopted by
thirteen Communist Bloc states, including China.

Perestroika, the
final phase of the strategy is meant to conquer the West from within by
KGB-controlled dissidents and opposition movements and disinformation about the
alleged existence of liberals and conservatives, reformers vs. hardliners.
Glasnost or openness would combine accurate information with disinformation.
The KGB was to create and control Communist Bloc officials of all political
stripes. Leaders since 1960, including Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Rutskoi,
Shevardnadze, Zhirinovsky and Primakov, have all been collaborators in carrying
out the plan. Their power struggles are fictional.

The Infiltration of the Upper Echelons

KGB agents of influence have infiltrated Western elite circles,
cultivating politicians, businessmen, scientists, religious leaders,
journalists, movie directors, environmentalists, and so forth. Agents have
included dissidents like Andrei Sakharov and diplomats such as the Soviet
Ambassador to Washington Anatoliy Dobrynin. Educational, scientific and
cultural exchanges, as well as thousands of joint projects in all fields, aid
Russian research, influence and recruitment. Whilst forging bonds with Western
liberals, these techniques also identify and neutralize active anti-Communists.
They are ridiculed as enemies of peace or removed from office. Assassination is
always a possibility, and Golitsyn suspects that was the case with Pope John
Paul I; but he explains why the evidence does not support the common belief
that the KGB was involved in the shooting of Pope John Paul II. (Interestingly,
in 1994, a claim that high-level Vatican officials were responsible was quickly
quashed.)

Liberalization of Eastern Europe was meant to promote disarmament,
the dissolution of NATO, the American withdrawal from Europe, and a neutral,
socialist Europe, a Common European Home from the Atlantic to the Urals, as
Gorbachev and Shevardnadze have described it. If NATO is not dissolved, then
its effectiveness is to be reduced by penetration (note Partnership for Peace
and East-West joint projects like Bosnia, which also help convergence), by
reduction of its purely military role of defending its members (it is now
peacekeeping in a non-member state), and by the acceptance of former European
adversaries as members. Moscow's opposition to the latter is a dialectical
tactic as such membership would actually increase penetration. One goal of the
Chechnyan barbarity is to scare Russia's neighbors and strengthen the argument
for their protection through NATO membership.

A major
penetration success is Gorbachev's American bureau, which allows him to
personally mobilize liberals in the cause of disarmament. Four months before
the August 91 coup attempt (showing that his job change from President to
private citizen was anticipated in light of the coming planned collapse of the
USSR), Gorbachev established, on American soil, the International Department of
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union known to us as
the Gorbachev Foundation/USA. It operates out of a disused military base in San
Francisco.

Poland has played a large part in the disarmament campaign.
Solidarity was planned during 1958-1960 by the Bloc, and Golitsyn correctly
predicted each stage in its evolution. There is clear evidence that the Polish
Communist Party formed the original core and leadership of Solidarity, whilst
Lech Walesa cooperated all along. He has also helped broaden the Communist base
in trade unions across the world, enabling them to be manipulated against
Western interests.

In order to
increase Communist representation and influence in the UN, the European Union
and international financial organizations, the Soviet Union was deliberately
converted into independent republics. However, by 1994, all the republics,
including the Baltic States, were controlled by Communists, but now within the
fiefdom of Russia. This strategy mirrors the successful policy of Lenin, who
gave a temporary independence to some republics in order to promote trade with
the West.

The
collapse of the Soviet Union serves several other purposes. One is gaining
control of Middle East oil. The new democratic image of the Muslim republics of
the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is being exploited to develop
alliances with fundamentalists in Arab countries so that pro-Western rulers can
be replaced with Russian-controlled fundamentalists. Radical changes in Israel's position are part of the strategy. Nuclear weaponry is being channeled
through the republics to Iran, whilst Russia, a signatory to the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, looks innocent. Turkey, a NATO member, is already a
major partner of Russia, purchasing Russian military equipment and cooperating
with it (thus weakening NATO).

The United States
has been unable to detect the long-range Communist strategy largely because of
disinformation provided by KGB and Chinese spies who have penetrated the CIA
since 1958. Perestroika and glasnost so confused American intelligence that it
became dependent upon Russian sources. The Ames case, as reported by Time (November 13, 1995), confirms Golitsyn's contention about the confusion in U.S.
intelligence services, which have accepted KGB plants as genuine sources.
Aldrich Ames spied for Russia from the start of perestroika (1985) to 1994,
helping to send ten valuable CIA agents to their death. This betrayal of
American trust in perestroika prompts Golitsyn's comment: "The Ames case shows
how blind and bankrupt is the American policy of aid to the new régime
in Russia".

Communism's Manipulation of the Church

Perestroika strategists did not overlook the use of clergy as
agents, nor the use of religious relaxation to further disarmament. In 1985,
Golitsyn reported that Russian Orthodox priests are controlled and directed by
the KGB in order to promote cooperation between Soviet churches and Western
Catholics and Protestants to help establish a united front for disarmament
(peace and justice movements?) and convergence. (Note that the Russian Orthodox
Church joined the World Council of Churches in 1961.)

Unfortunately, in
order to have Russian Orthodox observers at Vatican II, the Holy See promised
not to attack Communism. This 1962 Vatican-Moscow Agreement, which still seems
to be in force, is a form of persecution. It has silenced the Church and
allowed the errors of Communism especially perestroika to invade both it and
society unchallenged. Golitsyn notes the observation made by the outspoken
anti-Communist Russian General Volkogonov that perestroika would not have been
possible without a secret understanding between Gorbachev, Jaruzelski
[Communist President of Poland until Walesa took over in 1990] and the Pope.
In the absence of any elaboration, one can only speculate that the secret
understanding is the continuation of the Agreement with the added twist of
cooperation-blackmail: Vatican silence about Marxism would guarantee religious
and civil liberalization, starting with Poland.

In 1990, Golitsyn
warned of another aspect of religious relaxation:

"The Vatican
should reverse its mistaken support for the renewal of the Communist
régimes ... It fails to understand that greater apparent official
tolerance of religion ... is accompanied by a secret drive to increase Party
and KGB penetration of the Catholic and other churches and to use agents
therein for political and strategic purposes ... As part of the program to
destroy religion from within, the KGB, in the late 1950s [other former
Communists say 1930s], started sending dedicated young Communists to
ecclesiastical academies and seminaries to train them as future Church leaders.
These young Communists joined the Church ... at the call of the Communist Party
... to implement its general line [unchanged policy] in the struggle against
religion.

"In the present phase, secret agents in the Catholic and other
churches are being used to implement Communist strategy.

"The extent of
the deception can be gauged by Gorbachev's comment to his Communist cadres in
1987, after he had launched perestroika and religious relaxations: There must
be no let-up in the war against religion because as long as religion exists
Communism cannot prevail. We must intensify the obliteration of all
religions."

Golitsyn condemns the participation of Communist leaders at Summits
and their visits to the Vatican (which started in 1967) because these meetings
give them credibility and the opportunity for manipulation. Remarkably, in
1991, he quoted one of our popes in order to remind the Catholic Church of her
duty:

"The
statement by ... Pope Pius XII [he must mean Pius XI] concerning the
incompatibility and irreconcilability of Communism and religion is as correct
as ever. The Vatican should reaffirm this dictum and should use its influence
and divisions [Stalin's sarcastic term for loyal Catholic groups] to defend
Western values from the new, deadly but hidden Communist assault (Golitsyn's
emphasis). Unfortunately, because of her silence, Gramsci's strategy of
perverting the Catholic Church is in full swing. The religion of God is being
replaced with the religion of Man (and Heaven with an earthly, decadent
utopia), facilitating Communist control of de-Christianized minds. Golitsyn
assesses the consequences of détente for the Church: Never in its
history since Nero has Christianity faced such a threat of possible
destruction."

Free-Marketeers, Beware

He has a similar warning for industrialists and financiers involved
in joint ventures with the Communists. They are expediting the revival of their
adversaries; while they may make some profits from joint ventures, in the long
run they will be eliminated as a class through taxes and other means.

The grounds for
rejecting perestroika are simple:

[The moral
grounds are that] a system which has killed 20 million of its people (50
million if ... China [is] included), ... and brought ... misery to the peoples
of the Soviet empire, does not deserve to be renewed. The American people are
under no moral obligation to help with the reconstruction of such a plainly
evil system.

The pragmatic ground ... is the need to protect ... the American
system from restructuring and convergence with the Soviet system and to save
the American people from the blood baths and reeducation camps which such
convergence will ultimately bring. Thus, there should be no summit meetings, no
credit and no Western technology for ... Communist countries ... Communist
régime[s] should be left ... to solve their problems without Western
help since they claim that their system is the best model for the whole world
...Communists should be told: ... don't ask us for ...help: we are not going to
finance our own funeral.

The whole point
of Golitsyn's writings has been to warn Western leaders not to be fooled by
perestroika. He notes, however, that they have been fooled and wonders why they
have ignored his warnings, even though his analyses have a 94% accuracy rating
and Britain and the United States have honored him for his contribution to
Western security. One is forced to ask has it ever occurred to Golitsyn that
perhaps many of these leaders are not fooled, but are following orders? Is he
aware of the role of Freemasonry in world affairs? That it is Masonry that
desires the One-World Socialist Government? That Communism is merely its chief
tool? That Masonry, financed by Western interests, built up Russian Communism
and has kept it going in its various metamorphic forms for over seventy
years?

A Power Elite?

In the last two pages of his book, in a memorandum dated October 1,
1993, Golitsyn does hint at a secret controlling force behind Russian
Communism, but he lacks the facilities to study how it might be operating. He
believes it may be functioning under cover of some front organization, such as
the National Security Council. He advises the West to watch for signs of this
group but he gives no indication that he thinks there might be parallel secret
groups in the West. (Are even KGB officials kept in the dark about
Freemasonry?)

Not merely is Russia the tool of Freemasonry, but it is also the
instrument chosen by God to punish a sinful world, as Our Lady of Fatima
warned. Anatoliy Golitsyn's painstaking research shows we are close to the
fulfillment of Our Lady's prediction. As he soberly notes, the sword of
Damocles is hanging over Western democracies, yet they are oblivious to it.

Because The Perestroika Deception is a collection of memoranda, there is much repetition.
This can be tedious, but it greatly helps one to see the deception unfolding
day by day. Since the memoranda were directed to CIA officials, Golitsyn
probably assumed they would be familiar with the names and events mentioned;
thus, titles, dates or historical details are generally lacking. This can cause
difficulties for the layman. The "tight" print of the book, especially in the
footnotes, also makes for difficult reading. However, these footnotes, added
before publication, contain vital up-to-date information substantiating
Golitsyn's claims. The comprehensive, annotated Index helps make the book an
invaluable geopolitical resource. It should be required reading of the entire
Catholic hierarchy.